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Another rescued thread, from October '26: Here's one for a handful of volumes where structural and binding elements caught my eye. This is MS Ashmole 5. (I can't alt-text all the images, but they tend to be already described in the skeet itself.) Big thread: 1/24

When I worked at Monticello, we learned a lot about Jefferson’s love of pasta moulds. But it was his enslaved chefs, James Hemings or Edith Hern Fossett, who brought the rather new macaroni & cheese recipe back to America and eventually made it at the White House. The recipe is via Monticello.org.

A comparison of the opening of the Gospel of John in Old English in 2 MSS: layout, translation choices, paratext, and more! #medievalsky forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/01/i...

Taking some time to admire the book haul from kalamazoo!

🌟The jurors have spoken, and we are so excited to announce the 2026 SHARP Book History Book Prize Finalists! ⬇️ Many thanks to the jurors for their work and for the SHARP members who make this prize possible!

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

Kalamazoo is now a week away (!!), and the RGME will be well represented at the Congress, with five co-sponsored sessions as well as our annual Business Meeting (14 May at 12 pm EDT). We will see you there! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in... www.eventbrite.com/cc/rgme-busi...

🎙️ #medievalsky

English codicologists: well English books are rarely dated me: English documents are them: .... me: DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS

Booke, booke, Reade a booke, Reade anothir booke, Reade a large amounte of bookes - Bookes are freakinge awesome

Thursday, 23d. At Musm. Began Harl. 1704. A Mr ^Nichs. Harris Nicholas, F. S. A. has lately been very civil to me at the Musm. He is about to edit the Roll of Carlaverok ... Full entry with a visit to The Royal Society @ www.madden1826.com/23-february

"Meetings with unremarkable manuscripts" could actually be a very interesting book.

I know this isn't the most active account but I've been noodling around with a thought related to a ms I've been looking at: 16th c translation of Gospel of Mark to Hebrew from England. In a letter dated 1918 HDS prof George Foot Moore writes to the private owner of the MS,

This jousting cheque relates to one of the contests at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520.

Get to know Viv, the Associates-funded Boston Public Library Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, in our latest YouTube interview! ▶️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TS5QDXf6x8

RBS has been integral to helping librarians Megan Kelly & Rebecca Flore make the medieval collections in their libraries more accessible to researchers. Read about their efforts at rarebookschool.org/impact-story-cataloging-fragments-in-chicago @lisafdavis.bsky.social @newberrylibrary.bsky.social

In all seriousness: if a Boston-based grad student in the humanities ever wants a project, transcribing, editing, and commenting on these two texts, Ms. S-107 @mhs1791.bsky.social, would be a publishable short book. I lack the time to do that work, but they are rich and fascinating texts.

Fantastic example of why cataloguing needs to be an iterative process and why we need to keep revisiting old catalogues and understudied manuscripts. And of course the cherry on top is the Phillipps provenance! #MedievalSky #ManuscriptStudies

Someone mentioned to me that Louis the Child used the same royal seal as Louis the German, so I tracked it down: turns out that it not only is the same seal, but was seemingly using an antique gem of Emperor Hadrian. We know it's the same because it was repaired, with a visible crack. #medievalsky

SEVEN Curators? www.bostonartreview.com/read/mfa-bos...

#DMSI2026 US edition will take place as part of International Congress on Medieval Studies @kzooicms.bsky.social at Western Michigan University on 13 May 2026, featuring five workshops. For further info & to apply for awards (by 20 Jan): tinyurl.com/DMSI-2026-US #medievalsky #digitalmedievalstudies

No one could read before Gutenberg. Except five priests and the pope. The alphabet was a secret.

January is a time for looking at the past and the future #MedievalCalendar Bodleian Library Exeter College MS 47; The 'Psalter of Humphrey de Bohun'; 1360 CE–1400 CE; Pleshey and London, England; f.1r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

3/3: Digital scan and close-up detail of a leaf from a Latin missal [France, late 13th century]. RBS 9542. Gift of Charles W. Moorman. #Medievalsky

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

A little blog post as a treat? One manuscript at the origin of English collecting for all you Ottley and Celotti fans out there with bonus Forster 😉

‘Elitism is detrimental to everyone. If art history is a subject only for the wealthy, most people won’t care if it dies’ – and it’s far too important for that to happen, writes Helen Barrett

Do you or your students work with English manuscripts? We have a summer school course for you👇 Book now for June 2026 in person in London. #MedievalSky #RenaissanceSky 📖✏️ #palaeography ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

We invite you to join our 2026 Annual Appeal. Donations of any amount can directly support the work and mission of our nonprofit educational organization powered principally by volunteers, supported by your donations. We give thanks for your support. manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-an...

Finally got started on some of the later mss in my project (getting into the early 17th c. here) with this great record of the 1628 House of Commons debates and proceedings, Ms. N-1325

Up next: manuscriptevidence.org//wpme/2025-r... "Break-Up Books and Make-Up Books", 21-23 November (hybrid at Princeton and online). Experts, students, collectors, lovers of books look at fragments. Join us!

Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.

#fragmentfriday time

Happy #fragmentfriday to all who celebrate, especially this little fellow, who I only can imagine is a recycled parchment doc used as a seal bag.

For my newsletter, I wrote about how wantonly illegal and unconstitutional ICE is, how it must come to a stop now, how it's up to all of us to stop it, and how we will need to develop a way so the federal government can never do this to us again. burns-notice.ghost.io/we-cant-live...

The online catalog at work has been getting slammed with bot traffic recently so if you find ABIGAIL timing out immediately after a search I am so sorry. We made an FAQ for it, even libanswers.masshist.org/faq/431698

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Scottish medieval plainchant as it may have been sung by Augustinian monks on the Feast day of St Columba (9th June) in the Abbey church on Inchcolm in the 13th & 14th century. The music is preserved in a 14th c. manuscript known as the Inchcolm Antiphoner MS 211, IV, f.2r #earlymusic #medieval

Join us @ the #medievalseminar next Monday, as we welcome @lauramorreale.bsky.social for a talk on the fascinating "Image du Monde" and its digital afterlives! 9/29, 5:30p, Barker 133. @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social @medievalacademy.bsky.social

It's nearly the Autumnal Equinox. The year continues to turn. Here's Stonehenge as depicted in the 16th century. #AutumnEquinox BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

Graduate students & faculty: Join us on September 17 for our Graduate Student Reception! Enjoy free refreshments and learn about the resources we offer to support your scholarship, from research fellowships to our seminars. Virtual attendees also welcome. Register: www.masshist.org/events/gradu...

The first 86 volumes of the Libri Conciliorum of the Archives of the Order of Malta at the National Library of Malta are now digitized and available online in HMML Reading Room (vhmml.org). Learn about the collections HMML has photographed at the National Library of Malta: hmml.org/collections/...

Fantastic little article about reproductions

#kzoo2026 CFP: this year the RGME is co-sponsoring 5 sessions at next year's ICMS- more details and portals for submissions on the website: manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/2026-in...

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost: uhh.de/csmc-hensley